These 4 stories shared in the weeks past are only a sampling of the many ways people approach death and dying. In a profession where prolonging life is typically the main aim, death makes the practice of medicine feel ultimately futile...
Read MoreOne day, an elderly couple that normally sees another doctor at our practice came to see me. Their problem? Not enough pain killers…
Read MoreAfter several years of working in the hospital system, bouncing around from specialty to specialty, harassed, overworked and jaded; I became eager to leave. So I began as a General Practice Registrar...
Read MoreAs a young doctor, death feels like the enemy...
Read MoreMy first experience of death was as a medical student...
Read MoreWe live in an age where information and gratification are a few short keystrokes away. Want to know who that person was that did that thing that one time…? Google it. Feel like a pizza? Order one online – guaranteed delivery to your door in 30 minutes or less. What a time to be alive!...
Read MoreIt’s a Friday afternoon and I’m running late. The waiting room of our General Practice surgery is filled to bursting as I walk out to call my next patient, Brian (not his real name). He sullenly walks down the corridor to my consulting room without lifting his eyes from the carpet below...
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